Lodge Card Club Raided / Grand Jury does not indict any Lodge employees

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Lodge Card Club Raided / Grand Jury does not indict any Lodge employees

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10 posts · member since Mar 2016
4mo ago

Came looking for some info on this, but I guess I will kick the thread off. Anyone there at the time or know more detail

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10 March 2026 at 07:10 PM
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coordi avatarcoordi
4mo ago

Maybe stop taking victory laps until you are actually proven correct because I doubt you will make an apology tour if you end up being wrong...

coordi avatarcoordi
4mo ago

Shame on you for playing strawman victim the moment someone tells you to chill out on your manic posting...

DesertCat avatarDesertCat
4mo ago
by pocket_zeros

They collect $12/hr time in addition to any membership fees. The room has 70 tables, so running at full capacity that's about $250k/month, which is still less than the amount of transactions identified (as I suggested), although it's not clear over what operating period those transactions are associated with.

The claim seems to be that they deposited $800k in January/February. But what about:

1) Chip sales?
Does Team Serpico not understand that real players don’t always cash out every night? I’m not only talking about players carrying around a bag of large denomination chips (I have $1,500 in mine). I also keep between $2k and $10k in my player bank at my local card room and thought I was a big shot until one day while getting a thousand out the young kid next to me gets $50k out of his.
2) tournament buyins?
Does Barney Miller think this cash is buried in a soup can behind the room until players reach the money?
3) liquor sales?
4) Food sales?
5) Extra cash accumulated over biggest days of the year, the new years holidays?

I’m not even going to get into merchandise sales as it’s impossible to estimate the incredible value that Doug Polks image adds to it. But this is starting to sound a lot like a wild goose chase to shut down a business they don’t like. So far we have two pieces of evidence:

1) Local deputies with community college level education who only got hired by flunking an IQ test (true story: police departments don’t like to hire high IQ applicants), who don’t understand the businesses cash flows or maybe even accounting, somehow decide $800K was “too much” for their good old brains to comprehend.
2) one guy one time didn’t get his membership checked upon entry.

I won’t be shocked if no charges are ever actually filed and the whole thing blows over and the Lodge reopens, but not until spending a couple years in court to get their bank accounts unfrozen and after filing bankruptcy. And that the county commissioners high five the sheriff for achieving their goals despite having no actual cause.

My ex-father in law once started a successful small insurance company to offer better rates than the big guys in the state’s rural counties. He was very successful until one day the state insurance commission told him he didn’t have enough capital for the business they were writing and he was going to be shut down in 30 days and forced into liquidation and bankruptcy, unless he found a way to inject millions more in capital. He had to run around to a bunch of doctors, his investors, personally begging them for additional monies in exchange for giving up a lot of his ownership percentage, and had to liquidate all his savings, even his 401k incurring massive tax penalties, but barely got the money in time.

6 months later his appeal was heard and the state regulators admitted their calculation was incorrect, just as he had told them, and that the company was always properly capitalized. Sometimes regulators are incompetent. Sometimes they are bored, or just don’t like you. Sometimes maybe they like your much bigger competitors a lot more, so much so they end up working for them after retirement.

In the case of local sheriffs in Texas, they have a long history of harassing card rooms. They are good Christians who hate vice more than they like going after actual violent crimes with actual victims, so for them nothing is better than shaking down a hooker to give her a lengthy private body cavity search or grabbing a big old pile of cash from a motorist, or a poker room, knowing it’s going to be nearly impossible for their victims to get that cash back....